If you’ve watched Colin Quinn for any length of time, you get the sense he has been in one continuous argument for the better part of 40 years. Not an angry argument, exactly. More the kind where the bar closed 20 minutes ago, everybody knows they should go home, and Colin has just remembered one more thing about the decline of Western civilization that proves his point.

That has always been the trick with Quinn. He can take something absurdly large – the Constitution, American tribalism, 2,000…